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Residential and commercial data are key to making informed residential real estate decisions. Portland Monthly does a good job of curating and collating data and disseminating it in such a way that the average home buyer/owner can understand. Each year Portland Monthly's Real Estate Focus Issue fails to disappoint.

Whether your a first-time homebuyer or a seasoned real estate investor, Portland Monthly Magazine always delivers more detailed information than you can find anywhere else on neighborhoods and schools in the Portland metro area!

Click Here for more detailed information on this years Best Neighborhoods.

Pacific Northwest log cabin crunchiness collides with medieval fortress architecture in this strange mélange of styles off U.S 101 on the southern Oregon shore. The brokerbabble calls it a "masterpiece of human creation," but that's an unguarded peek at an ironic authorial voice yearning to break out of the ridiculously overwrought prose poem that accompanies the listing photos, which include images of a musket floating in front of a mirror, a little boy in a 10-gallon hat playing hide and seek, and some of the most uncomfortable-looking bathrooms to ever appear in these pages. Seems hard to believe that anyone could say with a straight face that this is "the jewel of the Southern Oregon coast— unless that stretch of the coast happens to be a center of the strange and surreal where turrets, helipads, and herds of grazing ungulates totally equals awesome. Which, on second thought, is kind of awesome, actually. The manse, which is "Crafted with nature's best materials" (thanks, nature!), is asking$15.9M.

Whether you’re a solo first-time buyer, you’ve expanded into a young family, or you’ve just sent your last kid packing to college, there’s a perfect place for you in Portland.

Portland Monthlyis cautiously optimistic about Portland's slow-simmering real estate market. But 2013 saw a surge of good news. Home buying is up—way up.

Almost half of Portland's neighborhoods have returned to the median home prices they enjoyed five years ago. In many places, crime is down. Rosy outlooks abound. Indeed, a whopping 73 percent of people who took Portland Monthly's reader survey think it’s a good time to buy—and to sell—a home.

In light of this citywide burst of confidence, Portland Monthly is highlighting five Portland hoods that illustrate the promise of a new era in real estate.

With the touch-and-go of affordable residential real estate inventory and financing sometimes the best thing to do is to stay put and freshen/renovate a existing residence. Homeowners shouldcarefully weigh the pros and cons of buying vs remodeling. To do so, you'll need an idea of which remodeling projects deliver the highest ROI (return on investment), and the going costs associated with projects by region.

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Amazing views from this wonderfully remodeled Dunthorpe home on the Willamette River with sunrise and Waverly Golf Course views. Completely updated throughout including new kitchen and baths, carpet, furnace, air conditioning and much more. Ideally located with easy access to downtown Portland, OHSU & Lake Oswego. Buyer to do due diligence regarding potential to replace boat dock that use to be at site. Unique opportunity on water!

This vintage 2-level, 5,026 sq. ft. one of a kind top floor penthouse covers the entire top floor of The Envoy, and offers 4 beds including a master on the main, 4.5 baths, a elevator which opens into the solarium and 5000 square feet of terrace. This unique opportunity includes 4 parking spaces (2 single garages & 2 parking spaces in a gated lot) and additional 5th floor entrance off Cactus. With breathtaking territorial city and mountain views, it doesn't get any better than this! *Info and availability subject to change